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Anna Powell-Smith
Personal blog · anna.ps/blogdataeconomics
Anna Powell-Smith writes Anna’s blog, a personal blog at anna.ps about data and economics. Since 2013, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “How to use Land Registry data to explore land ownership near you (QGIS/UK)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-18, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Anna Powell-Smith's posts that map UK land registry data, house prices and commute times. Commenters mostly cite the posts as sources or point to her other visualisations.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Hello! I'm a technologist and policy analyst, and the author of Missing Numbers. Find out more about me and my projects here.
Most-linked posts?
- How to use Land Registry data to explore land ownership near you (QGIS/UK)2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-01-12
What Hacker News says?
An interesting one for London is Train Times vs House Prices [1]. Shows how prices are affected by commute times (and the raw data is downloadable if you want to plot the times on a map). [1] http://anna.ps/blog/train-times-v-house-prices-graphing-the-...
Comment linking /blog/train-times-v-house-prices-graphing-the-commuter-belt
on “How far you can get if you leave the largest U.S. cities at rush hour”Submitted How to use Land Registry data to explore land ownership near you as a story · 4 points
HN discussionVery nice. The maximum zoom in the map is a little too far out. Also this link does not work: https://anna.ps/blog/how-to-use-land-registry-data-to-explor... Oh and it is not useful for finding unregistered roads - it makes it look like all roads are unregistered.
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on “The Holes in the Map: England’s Unregistered Land”Submitted Using statistics to find the nicest (and nastiest) food at Waitrose as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThe writing linked there: https://anna.ps/blog/how-to-use-land-registry-data-to-explor... Interesting tidbit: "The government only released this INSPIRE data because of a European directive, which it tried to oppose." Yay Brexit!
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on “The Holes in the Map: England’s Unregistered Land”Submitted D3.js: Data-Driven Delight as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAnna Powell-Smith... I thought I recognised that name. She's done quite a few of these interesting visualisations. Her website is http://anna.ps/
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on “Selling England by the offshore pound”Submitted [Slides] Getting started with D3.js as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://anna.ps/blog/how-to-use-land-registry-data-to-explor...
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on “QGIS is the mapping software you didn't know you needed”Submitted How to use Land Registry data to explore land ownership near you (QGIS/UK) as a story · 1 points
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